A prolific novelist and essayist and giant of Latin American letters for many decades, Vargas Llosa was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2010.

Mario Vargas Llosa, a prolific Peruvian novelist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010, died Sunday in Lima, his family said. He was 89.

The writer has died at the age of 89 in Lima surrounded by his family, as communicated by his children. Mario Vargas Llosa passed away tonight at the age of 89 in Lima (Peru), surrounded by his family,